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TRIENNIAL ACTION
PLAN 2019-2021
Bujumbura, December 31, 2018
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Acronyms and abbreviations :
MAFOBA: Mamas For Burundi Association.
ASBL: Non profit organization
NGO: Non Governmental Organization
IT: Board of Directors
GA: General Assembly
SC: Supervisory Committee
ES: Executive Secretariat
IGA: Income Generating Activities
OSC: Organization of Civil Society
FGM: Female Genital Mutilation
SGBV: Sexual and gender-based violence
CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
UN: United Nations
SRH: Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Table of content :
Chapter I. Summary and summary presentation of Mafoba ...........................
Chapter II. Strategic Framework and Context ......................................................
Priority sections : ..................................................................... ..
Component / education and vocational training .....................................
Component / health .....................................................................................
Women's economic and social empowerment and empowerment and the emergence of
women's leadership. .............................................................................................
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CHAPTER I. SUMMARY. E T PRESENTATION SYNTHESIS OF MAFOBA
MAFOBA is a sbl initiated in 2015 by Burundian girls and women, works for the promotion
of socio-economic rights, peace, leadership, integration, socio-economic reintegration and
social cohesion of predominantly rural communities. MAFOBA is approved by the Ministry
of the Interior, Patriotic Training and Municipal Development by Ministerial Order No. 530 /
1460DU29 / 10/2018. It is part of the order of Burundian NGOs. Its target group is
particularly women, girls and children in rural areas, victims of social inequalities
and SGBV. MAFOBA is structured as follows : ONE AGA, One CS, One CA
and One SE. The CA is the responsible body of MAFOBA, composed of six members
namely ; a president, a vice-president, a financial affairs advisor (treasurer), a gender /
dimension advisor, a campaign mobilization expert and the executive secretary, with no
voting rights.
CHAPTER II. STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
1. BACKGROUND.
This Triennial Action Plan (2019 - 2021) MAFOBA is part of a work towards the fulfilment
of its mission, its vision, its assigned objectives, its commitments and orientations that it
wants to reach for the next three years as well as the major ones.
C HALLENGES that it expected to raise and effort, determination and
mobilization aur it needs to accomplish its task and to complete it. The drafting of this Action
Plan is based on a collaborative work between the Bureau (Executive Secretariat) and the
Board, and then adopted in plenary by the GA. It is also based on several exchanges with
other partners in the field. Indeed, as action suggestion exercise was carried out by members
of an MAFOBA and community leaders. In addition, a survey was launched from several
population categories Burundian has different spheres (local
authorities, community leaders and opinion, and other development actors and CSOs, girls
and boys, women and men of all categories ...).
It is an approach that wants a constructive and participative with the objectives
of the tender " Bell Sound Everyone, to get a global vision of the issues and challenges to
be met and finally to report on the problem that the community perceived, but which could
escape from MAFOBA. This information gathering has not only made it possible to prioritize
actions and feed this three-year Action Plan (2019 -2021), but has also contributed to the
ownership of projects by the beneficiaries and/or communities in a process. voluntary
improvement of the living conditions of the population. In addition, this approach is also to
stimulate the socioeconomic and cultural development of our community passing through
certain values that we consider fundamental that are put forward by MAFOBA, added to
those collected from these different categories of community members during of our
evaluations, meetings, focus-group, exchanges, consultations, survey. This Triennial
Action Plan (2019 - 2021) brings together a more comprehensive set of actions to be taken
depending on the situations of the long armed conflicts which have had multiple negative
effects on the economic and social life, thus destroying the person and upsetting socio-
economic and cultural fabric of the population burundian in general and, in particular women,
girls and children.
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MAFOBA has targeted as strategic priorities in the next three years (2019 - 2021) the
following sections :
1. EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING (Schooling of female children,
construction and rehabilitation of school infrastructure, literacy of women and girls,
apprenticeship of various professional occupations to women and girls victims of
armed conflict ...)
2. HEALTH (Sexual and Reproductive Health : Prevention and fight against child
marriage and early and forced unions ; awareness and training on the risks of unsafe
and unsafe abortion and the prevention of unwanted pregnancies through modern
methods of contraception ; Mother health - Children ; Education at puberty and the
management of menstrual hygiene ...)
3. CONOIC AND SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN AND THE
EMERGENCE OF FEMALE LEADERSHIP ( Restoration of livelihoods through
agro-pastoral revival, economic activities and support of women's groups for socio-
economic recovery contributing to the stabilization of community ; emergence of
female leadership : Women's capacity building and the development of a culture of
peace, u kind of democratic values for empowerment and good governance)
4. THE ENVIRONMENT (Water and sanitation ; combating deforestation, forest
degradation and loss of biodiversity in Burundi's target provinces). With the self-
determination of MAFOBA's Board, technically supported by its Executive
Secretariat team, pledge to put the energy necessary for the effective implementation
of this Plan of Action and with this shared and concerted, inclusive vision as well as
the involvement of all stakeholders, results will be palpable.
2. PRIORITY SHUTTERS.
2.1. COMPONENT / EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING.
a) Brief justification :
From an educational point of view, the 6 target provinces have a long history of
disarticulation and disintegration of their social structures. Among the causes that would
clearly explain this state of affairs, the unrest of rebellion and coups d'état are at the forefront,
which have mourned Burundi for more than 30 years, is added the wave of armed and
murderous violence that have torn the country from 1993 to the present, forcing the escape of
populations en masse to neighboring countries, and thousands more in internal displacement
at any time on the one hand and, some cultural considerations, the judgments of retrograde
customary values which objectify the woman on the other hand.
This is justified by the growth of illiteracy and the low rate of schooling among women and
girls. To date, Burundi still bears the legacy of these realities.
On the other hand, today the woman and the girl live like a nightmare, and there are still
many vestiges of the past related to social slavery, many women and girls can not read or
write because they did not go to school; therefore, they are often considered inferior to men,
as well as customs and traditions that do not allow them to study as men.
In many provinces where our investigators have visited, the constant is always bitter. Daily
practices mean that women or girls cannot participate in decisions made within the family,
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the tribal community, or the professional or even the administrative community. They are
always excluded from socio-political actions, girls are not entitled to the inheritance of their
parents or their husbands however, if the widow has remained with children especially boys,
they are heirs of the property left by their father in contrast to girls, because they are not
recognized by customary law as such. A woman / girl can feel free, enjoy her basic rights
only when freed from exploitation, marginalization, discrimination and oppression by the
man. So, it is important to raise their level of consciousness to claim their place in society,
their level of education and help them go out into the ignorance, into the under-information
and into the grip of the retrograde practices of the custom.
In addition, the six provinces have been most affected and have always been the scene of
very sensitive violations of human rights. Women have been raped and suffered too much
atrocities. Several categories of women in particular; those with disabilities, mothers-to-be,
widows, orphans ... have increased and many of them do not have guaranteed support and are
responsible for families and face the serious problems of life, which increases their state of
being vulnerability. Hence, this category of women and girls are unemployed, insert them
into upstream and downstream activities; and related jobs that offer employment and income
potential in order to integrate them into working life in a sustainable way.
MAFOBA thought that we should talk about the development of girls only when they have
imperatively acquired the fundamental cultural techniques (reading, writing, calculating ...) it
will help them to assert their rights more easily and to participate in the life of society as
others.
This is why MAFOBA would like to lead a wide education and awareness of the community
for women and girls by providing assistance, promotion, supervision and support to ensure
their economic, social and cultural well-being and to make them benefit the fruits of
sustainable development, guaranteeing them respect for all human rights and fundamental
freedoms; under the principles of equality and non-discrimination, and recognize the value
and diversity of their identities, cultures and social organization.
It is with this in mind that we have found it useful during these 3 years to continue to support
girls and women in the framework of the basic education and literacy circle (school support
for girls as well as boys, literacy and numeracy and other basic skills for women) as an ideal
setting to facilitate the dissemination, promotion and protection of target rights in the region
and activities in various professional occupations for women / girls would be a solution.
b) General objectives :
Contribute promotion and access to school education for girls from poor and
marginalized families by providing them acquired the capacity for the completion of
the basic cycle (primary) and secondary for girls.
Provide basic functional literacy for changing attitudes and respect for
women's human rights
Create and increase the financial capacity of women to better qualify for an
income generating activity (IGA), to discover opportunities for activities or jobs they
did not know before.
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OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES YEAR EXPECTED RESULTS
2019 2020 2021
▪ Build the 1. Hold preparatory XXXX XXXX XXXX The local government has put
capacity of rural participatory in place strategies to
women and girls planning meetings strengthen girls' education in
by promoting ; the Territory.
girls' education - Parents are sensitized and
and literacy to 2. Hold commit to send their
give them the consultation daughters to school.
chance to meetings with local -The number of girls enrolled
complete authorities and and completing primary and
secondary and local leaders on secondary education is
university their involvement increasing significantly in
education and to in the activities of Burundi's schools.
teach women to the 3. Identify
read and write for 1,200 girls enrolled - School girls are aware of the
their emergence and enrolled importance of education and
of female according to 150 avoid school drop-outs
leadership. per administrative without relevant reason.
▪ Support the sector ; -The girls' coaching clubs
schooling of 4. Acquire and exist and function properly.
female children grant to 1,200 girls
by paying school school kits and -At least 90% of 1,200 girls
fees and supplies. tuition fees (teacher are in school and 85% have
To encourage the bonuses) passed exams at the end of
education of the school year.
female children in 5. Organize four
preparation for community -The dropout rate of girls
their future and workshops on non- decreases significantly ;
to empower marginalization
children and other and social The standard of living of
caregivers to exclusion of girls women and girls trained and
participate in the and the importance their families improved.
education of of education for - Women and girls have the
children for future themselves and best self-esteem and their role
well-being. society. in society, but also with
▪ Participate in respect to themselves They
the education of 6. Organize are useful for them and for
children for their sensitization and the community.
future well-being community
▪ Increase the animation sessions -Strategies promoting the
financial capacity to the local media, rights of women and girls are
of families to but also through T- put in place in the target
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support the shirts and provinces of Burundi.
education of visibilities
their daughters. signs for the
▪ Increase the education of girls.
number of
schoolchildren by 7. Provide girls'
providing support parents with means
to parents who are for IGAs to support
poor by taking school children;
care of all or part 8. Organize
of school fees and supervision and
school supplies; monitoring of
▪Promote the activities in the
schooling of field;
women, promote 9. Produce activity
the education of reports.
girls and
stimulate the taste
of their studies;
▪ To fight against 1. Engage literacy
the discrimination instructors from
of girls in school targeted centers;
education in
Burundi. 2. Purchase
materials and
▪Provide
supplies for literacy
education for
centers and for
1,200 girls for the
literacy;
emergence of
women's 3. Ensure
leadership and premiums for
promote literacy teachers;
development
through their 4. Establish literacy
empowerment ; centers and
▪ Community organize functional
involvement to literacy training for
ensure girls' women and catch
safety and access up with girls who
to school. have left the armed
► Remove the forces or groups
obscurantism and and those who have
ignorance that been raped and / or
inhibit the sexually abused;
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development of 5. Organize
illiterate women supervision and
and girls by monitoring of field
learning writing, activities.
reading and math
to quickly 6. Produce reports
generate their of functional
skills in the 6 literacy activities
target provinces.
►Community
involvement to
ensure the
security of the
revitalization of
CSO member
organizations in
organizing catch-
up classes for
girls
►
Facilitate access
to remedial
classes for girls
from vulnerable
families who have
left armed groups
and those who
have been raped
and / or sexually
abused
► Fostering
development
through women's
empowerment
♦ Create 1. Train 900 Living conditions of women
employment women and girls in and girls in 6 target provinces
within professional improved at 87%
households; occupations
♦ To provide
guidance for - Organize and
women and girls Install 900 women
trained in the and girls trained in
training of professional
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various occupations such as
professional cooking, sewing,
occupations and weaving, computer
in foreign science, etc.
languages ;
2.2. SHAPE / HEALTH.
b. Brief justification :
Child marriage, early and forced and early and unwanted pregnancy is a harmful practice that
seriously undermines children's rights and contributes significantly to high maternal and child
mortality rates and is a gross violation of human rights. Resulting in many negative impacts
on the well-being and physical, mental and social health of girls in Burundi.
In the country and particularly in the 6 target provinces of MAFOBA, child marriage and
early and unwanted pregnancies continue to be widespread and the rate remains extremely
high.
According to our last report investigation, from March 2018, 41% of women aged 20 to 24
were married before the age of 18, and 17% before the age of 15. Also, it has been clearly
observed that child marriage is the key factor for abusive sexual activity and early
pregnancy. The most recent estimates have shown that several women aged 20 to 24 gave
birth to a child alive at the age of 18 years.
Specific problems, faced by girls at risk, married and / or have been married in Burundi are
based on the prevalence of violence against the girl child, parents are tempted to give their
daughter's hand in marriage, persuaded that her daughter will be protected from sexual
assault that could lead to stigmatization in the community. The paradox is that parents are
often wrong. The girl who gets married before the age of 18 ; is more susceptible
being abused s including domestic d u marital rape, compared with children of the same age
and the same generation who marry earlier. In addition, married children often display
symptomatic signs of sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress, such as feelings of
hopelessness, vulnerability, and severe depression.
It was found on the other hand, the fact of denouncing these forms of violence and
abuse s girls constitutes sex discrimination that is growing and that often makes the girls are
considered less worthy of attention and protection. In Burundian communities where girls do
not have the same perceived value as boys from birth, families and communities tend to
despise the benefits of educating their daughters and investing in their development. Married
children constitute a pronounced characterization of sexual discrimination that is gaining
momentum in several Provinces of Burundi. Child marriage has its own devastating
consequences for the girl child and the entire Burundian society.
The majority of pregnancies are unwanted and arise from contraceptive failure or simply
from lack of contraception and maternity is the main causes of maternal mortality and
morbidity among girls aged 15-19.
Alternatively, children are almost always his SPOUSE s married to older men, and they are
not able to talk to them on sex or birth control. This means that many girls become pregnant
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soon after their marriage when their bodies are not yet sufficiently developed. On the list of
multiple disabilities related to early parturition are listed ; the wedge obstetrical fistula, an
injury that leaves girls in constant pain and can easily become infected; sexually transmitted
diseases including HIV / AIDS , urinary incontinence ... It should be added that girls are
often repudiated or rejected by their husbands, families or communities.
However, this is not an isolated violation. The right to marry freely and with full consent is
linked to the rights to life, health, education and safety and is guaranteed in the Burundian
Constitution. Child marriage not only deprives girls of their right to make their own choice,
but also exposes them to the risk of early pregnancy, domestic violence and sexually
transmitted infections, and also decreases their access to education and to work. It is also
about differentiated conceptions of gender roles and family relationships between men and
women. These conceptions tend to elevate women to the background, rooted in traditional
practices, formal and informal customary norms, social norms, and religious and cultural
practices that have a direct bearing on women's social and economic roles in Burundi .
In fact, the use of reproductive health services is generally low in this region, and even more
so among adolescent girls, married or not. In addition, child marriage leads to school dropout,
decreases girls' level of education and promotes the intergenerational transmission of
poverty. Why, in the next three years (2019-2021), MAFOBA would like to accelerate and
strengthen the process of eliminating the phenomenon child marriage, early and forced
marriages; combat the adverse consequences of unsafe abortion, maternal mortality and early
and unwanted pregnancies and promote new contraceptive methods in the country. 6 most
affected provinces of Burundi. In addition, advocacy for safe abortion is fraught with
difficulties in a context where social norms and religious beliefs are rooted against safe
abortion .To strengthen advocacy for safe abortion, it is necessary that the company in
partnership with various stakeholders initiate an open dialogue to convince the ins and outs of
its social norms and religious beliefs. SOMAGO's strong presence as a leader in technical
knowledge of abortion and its experience is an opportunity to influence and enable
networking with like-minded organizations for the defence and provision of abortion services
secure to women who express the need.
General objectives :
Work for change social norms prevent girls and sexually active women
viv e nt p ace Union and groom Young people seek and use health services
reproduction ;
Promote the effective implementation of legal and policy instruments relating
to children and young adolescents through the promotion and protection of their
human rights, in particular the rights to sexual and reproductive health;
Accelerate the elimination of child marriage through awareness of the harmful
effects and the commitment to put them in place ;
Contribute to the improvement of the protection mechanism for girls at risk,
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and child marriage and access to care services for
girls and young women ;
Develop community / holistic integrated initiatives for promoting the
elimination and abandonment of Children and Women Genital Mutilation Weddings
(FGM) in 6 provinces Targets
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Capacity building of non-state actors to conduct evidence-based advocacy
campaigns including strengthening the role of leadership, prevention and protection of
children and adolescents against practices prejudicial to their rights and remove
barriers and impediments to law enforcement ;
Expanding contraceptive choices for adolescent girls and youth through the
inclusion of long-acting reversible methods by 2021;
Reduce the mortality rate of women and girls engaged in illegal abortions at
risk due to unwanted pregnancies ;
Ensure universal access for women to family planning ;
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YEAR
OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES 2019 2020 2021 EXPECTED RESULTS
- Strengthen the skills of adolescents, 1. Organize a meeting of dialogue and XXX XXX XXX -The accelerated elimination of child
parents, community leaders and other dialogue with stakeholders around the issue marriage in Burundi;
social actors and stakeholders on of "marriage of girls and early unions" in - by the end of the year 2021, we
techniques of prevention and Bujumbura to involve them in the project; should note a greater commitment and
elimination of children and early and an increase in the capacity of the
forced marriages, techniques of 2. Conduct a survey of the collection of population to reduce child marriage,
monitoring and advocacy of cases of basic quantitative and qualitative data on the particularly in the four provinces of
violations rights and more equality; phenomenon of child marriage and early and the country where the campaign to the
- Strengthen adolescents' abilities in forced child union. These are numbers that elimination of child marriage will be
life skills and sexual and can be subjected to different forms of launched;
reproductive health (SRH) statistical analysis and information about the - greater involvement of all
views, opinions or observations of people in stakeholders including families,
- Promote girls' leadership by
narrative form, presented at the very communities, the private sector and
working directly with them to
beginning to establish the level of CSOs in the fight against child
develop their decision-making and
measurement at from which the changes will marriage;
solidarity;
be measured; -Access to a safe and protective
- Fight for changes in attitudes and environment for children that will
behaviours and standards related to 3. Organize the feedback sessions of the allow them to benefit from all
gender equity, child marriage and survey results in order to reach a wider opportunities related to quality
early marriage through the audience of women leaders, civil society education, their own choice and
mobilization of families, members, rulers and local leaders on child decision to marry or not, when and
communities and influential people; with whom and to freely choose
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- Provide direct services to girls at marriage ; whether or not to have children, when
risk, girls already married on and how many;
education and sexual and 3. Form and support local girls' committees -Families, communities and
reproductive health ie safe abortion in neighborhoods on gender, positive values influential actors also benefit from
and postabortion care, livelihoods of child and early marriage and advocacy; this change by identifying critical
and coping. autonomous economic factors that will enable communities
charge and other necessary services; 3.Organize 4 trainings of girls leaders on the to mobilize and undertake better
techniques of monitoring cases of violations intergenerational communication and
- Advocate for the adoption and
of the rights of girls and young women and social cohesion within families and
enforcement of laws and policies
advocacy for more equality between boys communities ;
related to the prevention of child
and girls, on the roles and functioning of -A high percentage of children and
marriage, early and forced marriages
their structures in four targeted provinces ; adolescents build capacity on mischief
to prevent them
and elimination of child marriage
- Develop a communication strategy 4. Create spaces / huts for girls to promote a phenomenon;
for abandoning the practice of child dialogue between different generations (girls -145 radio broadcasts and 145 radio
marriage and young women between them), for the plays in community radios in 6
permanent exchange of experiences between Provinces on child marriage and
- Empower vulnerable families of
local leaders, women leaders, actors of the harmful traditional practices are
children at risk of marriage ;
civil society , on gender issues, rights to carried out ;
- Accompany children and sexual and reproductive health, children's
adolescents at risk of marriage in rights and the situation of child marriage and -More than 300 educational talks on
their life project; early marriage to encourage critical child marriage organized by 2021.
-To strengthen the skills of reflection on practices that bring risks to the
community actors; property -being of the child;
►Actively support educational 5. Organize 64 training sessions for xxx
policies that encourage the customary and religious leaders on child - The capacities of family members,
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sustainable retention of girls in the marriage in all rural and urban communes; civil society organizations and
school curriculum. communities in preventing, managing
6. Organize 45 training sessions for 1,800 and combating gender-based violence
agents of the deconcentrated public and harmful traditional practices
administration (high commission, against children are strengthened
prefecture) and local authorities on the
problem of child marriage;
7. Organize 12 training sessions for 648
community actors in young approach
technique and on the topic of child marriage
and early unions;
8. Organize 20 advocacy meetings for
religious and traditional leaders, decision-
makers and authorities for their mobilization
and commitment to creating an enabling
environment for the abandonment of child
marriage;
9. Organize 60 training sessions for 2,400
adolescents in life skills and SSR;
10. Create and train members of the
Children's Parliament in life skills and
sexual and reproductive health (SRH);
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11. Identify 7,200 teenagers out of school at
risk of marriage and 7,200
families of children at risk of marriage
(2,400 per year for 4 targeted provinces)
12.. Grant small rotating loans to at-risk
girls, young women and more vulnerable
households to enable them to organize
support for economic opportunities in order
to reduce the pressure to resort to early
marriage relationships and marriage in
different municipalities;
13. Establish functional literacy centers for
girls and women and ensure girls' access to
quality education at primary and secondary
level (support for school fees and supplies)
for the practical skills that will make them
more able to self-protect;
14. Organize and conduct high-level
advocacy events, including forums with the
media, civil society organizations to inform
and raise awareness about child marriage
and support priorities and with decision-
makers with a view to adopting laws and
laws repressing all social, traditional and
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current practices that are harmful to the
health and human rights of women and
children;
15. Organize 300 psychological
consultations for some victims of child
marriage;
16. Organize entertainment sessions for the
general public with themed songs on child
marriage and other harmful traditional
practices (3 per municipality)
17. Organize joint social mobilization
communication campaigns for behavioural
change with regard to early marriage and all
related harmful traditional practices across
multiple communication channels;
18. Provide psychosocial support to child
marriage victims;
19. Assist legally and / or judicially 10
victims of child marriage;
20. Coordinate, monitor and evaluate
implementation.
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- Strengthen the capacities of local 1. Organization of 8 brainstorming -Strengthening and significant
leaders (women, girls, customary workshops on women's / girls' access to safe improvement in the level of
chiefs, administrative authorities, abortion services with the aim of analysing knowledge of communities and other
elected representatives of the people, abortion laws and barriers in Burundi in stakeholders (girls, women, leaders
civil society ...) on advocacy order to advocate and sensitize opinion for and others) on the rights to
techniques for the legalization of women's access to safe and legal abortion reproductive health (abortions, ...) ;
medical abortion. services ;
- Engage community members, -Local and national living conditions
especially custodians of custom, 2. Organize 24 trainings of local leaders and policies on legalized abortions are
administrative authorities, MPs and(CSO, religious, youth associations, women, improved ;
civil society in Lobbying and ..) on advocacy techniques to have leaders
advocacy on the legalization of who know the rights and duties, who know -Inruption of pregnancy or the
medical abortion and its post- how to defend the interests of girls and unwanted arrival of a child in difficult
abortion services in Burundi in women and that the legal provisions circumstances ;
general and in the 6 target MAFOBA provided for in legal instruments ratified or
provinces in particular. not by Burundi on the - Provision of governors, chiefs and
- Decrease the number and incidenceproblematic abortion Are respected, if not local leaders to monitor the situation
of unwanted pregnancies in
to pass a law in this matter. related to reproductive health,
adolescence; 3. Hold meetings with honourable Members
during the periods of their parliamentary -The mortality rate of women and
- Reduce delays between the use of holidays on abortion practices, reasons for girls engaged in criminal / at-risk
contraception and the beginning of abortion, post-abortion complications, abortions as a result of unwanted
sexual relations; consequences, and their implication on the pregnancies is significantly reduced ;
- Improve the sexual experience of influence to the establishment of laws
adolescents. legalizing abortion and its post-abortion -The establishment of laws or policies
services in Burundi. allowing or liberalizing access to
4. Organize and conduct advocacy with abortion services and post-abortion
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policy makers to ensure that legal provisions care ;
in legal instruments ratified by
Burundi prevention of unwanted -A national reproductive health policy
pregnancies through the modern methods of defining the social, cultural and legal
contraception ; environment on medical abortion,
5. Organize awareness campaigns on the developed, adopted and applied ;
risks of unsafe and unsafe abortion and the
prevention of unwanted pregnancies through Awakening of awareness of women
modern methods of contraception in and girls to health services and the
schools; danger and the risk of unsafe and
6. Organize 351 training courses for 10,530 unsafe abortion and increased
teenagers in everyday life skills and SSR. dissemination of correct information
about the need for safe abortion;
● Increase the demand for 1. Organize awareness-raising activities for • Contraceptive prevalence by 2021
contraception of the predominantly women and adolescents on family planning , has increased by at least 50%
rural Burundian population; spacing of births and improved access for • The total fertility rate fell to 4.5
● Improve the living conditions of women and girls to contraception through children per woman by 2021; health
families through spacing of births several communication channels; services because their consciences
and better access for women and 2. Supply of contraceptive products in will be awakened to the danger and
girls to contraception different health facilities in targeted risk of unsafe and unsafe abortion and
provinces across the country; will increase the spread of correct
● Make contraceptive products information about the need for
available at all benefit points 3. Set up adolescent clubs and provide them contraception;
● Offer quality services in the field with skills on the use of new contraceptive Financial barriers to schooling and the
of family planning in health methods purchase of contraceptives are
facilities, advanced strategy and overcome by 2021.
mobile strategy
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2.3. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMPONENT/EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN AND THE EMERGENCE OF FEMALE LEADERSHIP
c. Brief justification :
Since the 1993 crisis, the Burundian in general and in particular women at all levels have experienced terrible suffering and have not been able
to meet their basic needs for income security - food, health, education, gender, freedom of expression, etc. Long armed conflicts have had
multiple effects on economic and social life, destroying not only infrastructure and livelihoods, but also social structures and self-help capacities.
Since this period until today, life does not seem to be as peaceful as we thought, there have been too many upheavals, and things are going very
badly in Burundi. Conflicts rage, divisions, regionalism, increasing incidence of violence of all kinds, endemic corruption,
Referring to historical benchmarks, equal opportunities between men and women is far from being observed in the Republic of Burundi in terms
of public affairs management, involvement or participation of women in the process of peace and political life at all levels, despite the majority
of women compared to the entire population of Burundi, or 52% of the population. The imbalance is observable in all institutions, departments
and services where men with their selfishness prevail over 85% of women. This state of affairs does not only frustrate women who see nothing
change and despite the presence of men in the majority of institutions, the social situation of the population seem to be uncertain and is always
worse. It seems as well as in the face of this situation, which only throws us out of harm's way to undermine the principles of gender and
therefore endangers the hard-won peace in Burundi with this power-sharing disequilibrium. Gold ;
There are enough able-bodied women who can handle public affairs well, but who are not mentored and less involved and informed
about the process of democratization, peace and gender ;
Accompanying the emergence of women's leadership in the process of peace, democratization and gender, women's action will be less
effective if they are likely to go without prior guidance ;
The need is enormous women about their participation in the management of public affairs, in politics, in a research participation of e
peace, their commitment so that they support themselves troughs of income generating activities in Burundi, it takes training, dialogue,
coalition and serious preparation of women.
Failure to support women in the decision-making process, involvement in the country's politics, the process of democratization, peace
and gender, the process of restoring livelihoods for economic recovery would keep them frustrated. Therefore ; they will remain in a
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situation of conflict between themselves and with the leaders, languishing in misery, in precarious conditions in their communes where they
live expediently.
But on the contrary provides r food security and meeting basic needs, support women in areas related to empowerment and
emergence u leadership would make them stronger and able to manage public affairs, to become involved in political life and the search for
peace at all levels and hope for lasting peace in the region. If the question u genre dominates the socio-economic issues and policy in recent
decades, the role of women and especially of rural women is often left stranded in the policies and programs of socio-economic and political
integration.
That is why, in this three-year Action Plan, MAFOBA, with the support of international development aid partners, wishes to continue to support
the Burundian people and, in particular, women, in their efforts to improve their lives, living conditions and strengthening of their decision-
making power in society, through economic security programs, to facilitate the establishment of an environment conducive to gender equality
and the advancement of women towards empowerment, by encouraging equal participation of women and men at all levels of decision-making.
It wishes to make operational the stipulations of the Burundian constitution as well as the recommendations of the United Nations Resolution
1325.
General objectives :
Improve the economic, social and political conditions of women to promote their empowerment in the 6 target Provinces.
Improving the living and working conditions of Burundian women to increase their participation in socio-economic
development and for the alleviation of poverty, and through intensive agricultural extension and extension supplies with modern and
cost-effective means of production and skills acquisition in income-generating and agricultural jobs, thus contributing to their
reintegration and / or rapid reintegration into their community and better positioning of girls and women on family farms.
Improve knowledge of women, decision-makers, development partners and communities on Resolution 1325 and other
international, regional and national legal instruments related to women's rights, their involvement and participation in the peace process.
Contribute to the promotion of women's rights, leadership, gender equality and women's participation in political life and
decision-making in households, communities and state and corporate bodies. Burundi.
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Increase the capacities of women and members of women's associations to improve their involvement and participation in
reconciliation and peace building, increase their role in community building and finally improve the living and working environment of
women's groups to facilitate exchanges and encourage peace initiatives
To further strengthen women's capacities on their political rights in particular; by framing them, guiding them and by equipping
leaders in the public speaking, interactions with the press, advocacy and theme of violence based on gender and good governance.
YEAR
OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES 2019 2020 2021 EXPECTED RESULTS
►Strengthen capacities on 1. identification and structuring of XXXX XXXX XXXX ► Increase and diversification of agro
livelihood diversification and women's groups by value chain, pastoral production and employment in
rapid reintegration for providing a normative framework and the 6 target Provinces;
populations affected by recent providing sensitization and technical ►Improving the living conditions of the
armed conflict and training sessions AGR management; rural poor population of 6 target
marginalization 2. Creation of women's groups and / provinces of the program, the food
►Provide agricultural micro- or Village Savings Associations and security of these populations and
credits (labour credit, seeds, etc.) Credits in the communes through the increased revenues through the
to ensure the socio-economic 6 targeted Provinces among the 18 in marketing of surplus production.
reintegration of women victims Burundi. - Increasing incomes and income
of armed conflict and 3. Organize 8 beneficiary training diversification and the economic power
marginalization; sessions on the management and of women ;
►Strengthen capacities on technical aspects of income -Training and credits to increase
livelihood diversification and generating activities and earnings capabilities are provided ;
rapid reintegration for diversification of production. -Promotion of income-generating
populations affected by armed 4. Provides agro pastoral micro- activities and development in the
conflict and marginalization in 6 credits for small-scale production, Provinces, thus contributing to the
targeted Provinces ; simple processing of agricultural maintenance of the families of the
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► To fight against poverty by products, street vending and beneficiaries
increasing the incomes of the marketing to women, and extension -The strengthening of the economic
populations in general and, in of extension work among farmers, authority of women leading to a
particular the women.. pastoralists and other stakeholders to reduction in the fertility rate ;
► Provide socio-economic ensure reintegration. socio-economic - Rural households in the communes of
support to women survivors of across the provinces ; 6 Provinces reinforce and balance their
armed conflict and other forms family farms around agro pastoral
of conflict, particularly in the 6 activities and income-generating
Provinces affected by activities;
unfortunate events through the - The food and economic security of the
establishment of economic populations of 6 Provinces of
activities and diversification of intervention are improved durably
their livelihoods and stabilization through a diversified and adapted offer
of households. of services of support to agriculture, the
breeding and the entrepreneurship;
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▪ Strengthen the capacity of 2. Organize 20 outreach and ● Capacity building of women's and
women to know their rights by community outreach sessions on UN girls' associations to improve their
disseminating gender equality Resolution 1325, in culture of peace, participation in the peace building and
issues (CEDAW, UN Resolution and the promotion of non-violence for reconciliation,
1325, inheritance laws) communities of intervention ● Strengthening the role of women's
▪ Increase the capacity of (5 animation sessions per groups and associations in community
women's associations and municipality) through several reconstruction and their visibility in
groups to facilitate exchanges channels of awareness (Animation conflict prevention actions, and finally,
and encourage peace initiatives radio, talk-debates, ...) ● Women's participation in all efforts to
and their participation in 4. Organize two trainings in favor of maintain and promote peace and
reconciliation and peace community actors in leadership, security and decisions made for the
building, gender equity and non-violent conflict prevention and resolution of conflict
▪ To enable beneficiaries to management.
become familiar with the - Establish and support a Synergy of
concepts of women's rights and action between women, youth,
the rights of the child authorities and opinion leaders in the
▪ Allow participants to become conduct of citizen actions and peace
familiar with the building and security;
notions of conflict - To extend and distribute United
Bring participants to think about Nations Resolution 1325 and Produce
the notions of prevention as communication media for behavioural
benchmarks for development change (T-shirts, Kepis, Leaflets,).
sustainable.
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To increase the capacity of 1. Organize 4 training sessions on ● Capacity building of women's and
women's associations to improve United Nations Resolution 1325 and girls' associations to improve their
their participation in legal, regional and participation in the peace building and
reconciliation and peace national instruments related to reconciliation,
building, to increase their role in women's rights for community leaders ● Strengthening the role of women's
community building and to (women, administrative and groups and associations in community
improve the living and working customary authorities, religious reconstruction and their visibility in
environment of women's groups leaders, NGOs in society) civil conflict prevention actions, and finally,
to facilitate exchanges and society, ...) in the six capitals of the ● Women's participation in all efforts to
encourage peace initiatives. target provinces of MAFOBA; maintain and promote peace and
2. Organize 4 specific youth training security and decisions made for the
on appropriate techniques according prevention and resolution of conflict.
► Develop strategies and to income-generating activities, social
mechanisms for violence cohesion and culture of peace with a
prevention and conflict view to improving their capacities to
management in the context of move towards the stability of their
promoting local governance. community and also to employability
in each province of 6 targets of
MAFOBA activities
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2.4. COMPONENT / ENVIRONMENT , WATER AND SANITATION
d. Brief justification :
The recurring crises in Burundi have led to the displacement of populations, therefore, the change of their living environment. The situation
continued to worsen for those who ended up in refugee sites and displacement camps. Even though there is a level of equipment in the camps for
drinking water infrastructure for displaced populations compared to the pre-crisis situation following the fact that the displaced have taken
refuge in infrastructures already equipped with this equipment, the operation of these is not always assured. E t displaced are often forced to
source to source or undeveloped rivers and are therefore exposed to diseases related to the water unfit for consumption and the conditions of
poor hygiene. With regard to toilets in the camps, there are some in the reception facilities, it happens that there it has lost-well toilets, but that
does not prevent some displaced people from releasing themselves in nature. In all cases, the hygiene is deplorable because, even if the toilets
exist, they are poorly maintained, hence the risk of diseases such as cholera, bacillary dysentery, typhoid fever ... The Government of Burundi,
being aware of the importance of women in sustainable development, we cannot ignore the interrelations between "women and the environment"
in the development of its National Strategy for the Environment in Burundi (SNEB). Indeed, MAFOBA in developing this three-year Action
Plan (2019-2021), was based on the reality related to the problem of the environment and the risks of degradation of ecosystems and polluting
substances. The Burundian woman participates in the faith to deterioration and the preservation of the environment, given the many tasks it
carries out, through its role as reproducer and educator. This Plan is a framework that MAFOBA wants to define strategies and to stop the
actions likely to improve the participation of the woman in the management of the environment and in the sustainable development. The
Burundian woman plays an important role both in the degradation and in the preservation of the environment. It occupies a central place in the
fight against climate change. Yet, even if the woman supports ; an overwhelming share of the burden of climate change, it has been so far
largely forgotten in the activities and problems related to rising sea levels, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather events . Indeed,
because of its reproductive function that gives it a considerable social status when it has a large offspring in particular male, its function as a
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producer places it at the center of the operation and survival of the family. She is the main actress in agriculture for the production of foodstuffs
needed to feed the family. He also has multiple tasks, such as the search for firewood either by felling trees, or by collecting dead wood, or
twigs, the search for drinking water, hygiene, good family health, environmental sanitation and children's education. Its protective function
contributes to some extent to breaking the balance between population, natural resources and the environment, as the population continues to
grow without increasing resources. The environmental degradation in Burundi is linked to the lack of adequate development. People, especially
women, are destroying natural resources ; soil, water, air and forests. The influence of women on the environment is obvious. But does it have
sufficient training and information to maintain a balance between protecting ecosystems and meeting household needs? ? MAFOBA is working
and is reassured that, if the legal and economic status of the Burundian woman improves in particular ; through access to the earth's legacy and
increased income and if its role is put to use, it can leverage its strength for environmental protection. The Burundian population is unevenly
distributed throughout the national territory and is essentially rural. The main activity in Burundi is agriculture in the first place and livestock in
the background. Women are the majority in this sector of agriculture while livestock is traditionally devoted to the man, but the woman
participates in certain activities such as searching for fodder, litter, collecting manure etc. With regard to hygiene, water and sanitation ; it is
mainly the female and the girl who are involved in a large proportion and the male children participate to a certain extent at very low
proportion. In the 6 target provinces MAFOBA at least 30% of women will provide water to more than one hour. Our surveys in this sector show
that more than 43% of the population in the six provinces draws water from developed sources. An average of 29% does not do it when she does
not even think about boiling it before eating. In many households, even if the water is drinkable from the source, it is already consumed polluted
because of precarious conditions of transport and shopping. The rules of basic hygiene in water treatment are not always respected in all 6
provinces targeted by MAFOBA because, families do not boil the water before consuming. Families in greater numbers use rainwater. With
regard to the disposal of garbage, it is always a task reserved for the woman. At this level the situation in the 6 provinces target, seems to be
relatively good, people deposit garbage in simple pits or for composting and others in a small proportion, throw them around the enclosure. The
health services that we have in turn contacted say that the Burundian population knows badly or does not know the links between health and
water treatment, hygiene, maintenance and maintenance of homes, water management and sanitary latrines. Since the man is supposed to take
care of the contacts outside the household, the woman is responsible for the day-to-day management of the household. It is up to the latter to
prepare the meals, therefore the research and cutting of firewood. She is often forced to travel long distances to get it and this activity takes a lot
of time. With the current scarcity of wood, women in all 6 provinces use plant debris and there is a shift in dietary habits due to scarcity as
women prefer more quick-cooked foods (ndagala, cassava paste) that do not do not require a lot of wood like beans. If the woman is targeted
among the agents of the sensitization, she will do better to convey the message through the population. The female population in Burundi
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represents more than 54% against 51% of the male population. This gap is large between the two sexes, which explains a male deficit and an
explosion of the status of single women. This numerical importance of women should be a factor of development, if we consider their
representativeness in all sectors of national life. The unpaid work that Burundian women perform in the family (housework) or family farm is
important even if it is difficult to quantify. Through her personal fulfilment, the woman disseminates the benefits in her family, in society and
among the future generation. The female population is the majority in Burundi, it is an asset in the management of the environment. Climate
change risks exacerbating extreme weather events such as drought, floods, storms and heat waves, uncontrolled construction, deforestation of
trees and bush fires contribute to the danger and continue to increase number and severity of disasters.
. General objectives :
Improve the resilience of rural women (including women farmers), including their livelihoods, and the resilience of agro-ecological
systems to the impacts of climate vulnerability;
Provide responses to the impacts of hurricanes Isaac and Sanday on the agricultural sector in the 6 target provinces of Burundi namely;
Bujumbura, Bujumbura-town hall, Bubanza, Cibitoke, Muyinga and Makamba
Promote the integration of disaster risk management and good adaptation practices in the agricultural sector, such as the multiplication of
crop varieties and good agricultural practices that increase farmers' resilience to climate hazards
Strengthen disaster preparedness and management and increase risk reduction
Address internal displacement and contribute to the education and health of girls and women to promote their economic development,
reduce poverty and have a positive impact on the climate.
OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES YEAR EXPECTED RESULTS
2019 2020 2021
Improve the resilience of rural - Full extension of the XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX - The environmental
women (including women environmental dimension in the aspect in the economic
farmers), including their economic concept of Gender and concept of Gender and
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